Heel-attaching machine



Sept. 6,-1949. T. B. CLARKE ET AL ,486,905

HEEL ATTACHING MACHINE Filed Jan. 16, 1945 7 Sheets-Sheet 1 Sept. 6, 1949. T. BQCLARKE ET AL HEEL ATTACHING MACHINE Filed Jan. 16, 1945 7 Sheets-Sheet 2 .LJU;

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[n vent/Jr's Thomas Baggotz Clarke Arthur Alan Ffz'uz'ngzon Sept. 6, 1949. T. B. CLARKE EI'AL HEEL ATTACHING MACHINE 7 Sheets-Sheet 6 Filed Jan. 16, 1945 [n ventors Thomas Ba ggott Clarke thzlr Alan Rz'um 14f gton 5 their Attorney Sept. 6, 1949. T. B. CLARKE ET AL HEEL ATTACHING MACHINE '7 Sheets-Sheet 7 Filed Jan. 16, 1945 P Attorney Inventor; Thomas Baggbtt Clarke ArthurAZqn Rivingzorz By ihez' fatented Sept. 6, l94

2,480,905 HEEL-ATTACHING MACHINE Thomas Baggott Clarke and Arthur Alan Rivington, Leicester, England, assignors to United Shoe Machinery Corporation,

Flemington,

N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application January 16, 1945, Serial No.

In Great Britain February 4, 1944 27 Claims.

1 This invention is concerned with improvements in the heeling of shoes. By way of example, there is hereinafter described One convenient construction of machine which is illustrative of the inven tion, it being adapted for attaching a heel to a nails to enter the heel for its attachment to the a shoe.

Before the heel is attached, it is desirable that it shall have formed in it a plurality of passages, the arrangement of which conforms to that of the nails in the shoe, with the object of ensuring that the nails will enter the heel properly. The formation of the passages in the heel has, in attaching heels in the manner just previously mentioned, been efifected in a machine separate from that in which the heel-attaching operation is performed. When a heel having passages thus produced is placed in the attaching machine, said passages may not be in correct alinement with the nails in the shoe and the nails may not be driven into the heel correctly.

One of the various objects of the present invention is to ensure that, in attaching a heel to ,a

- shoe in the manner above described, the fasteners will be forced accurately into the heel in a more reliable and expeditious manner than hitherto. To this end, the machine of the present invention combines with a heel-supporting mechanism and a fastener-inserting mechanism, either of which mechanisms may be moved into co-operation with a shoe-support, novel mechanism whereby passages may be'formed in a heel, as by pricking. When the fastener-inserting mechanism is beneath a shoe on the shoe-support, the heelsupporting mechanism is beneath the pricking mechanism and when the heel-supporting mechanism co-operates with the shoe the fastener-inserting mechanism receives fasteners supporting mechanism, with the heel thereon, is 55 moved beneath the shoe-support. The pricking devices of the pricking mechanism and inserting devices of the fastener-inserting mechanism are so arranged that when a pricked heel, thus held against movement on the heel-supporting mechanism, is carried beneath a shoe into which fasteners have been driven, the passages in the heel and fasteners in the shoe will be in alinement. Therefore the entry of the nails into the passages is assured, the heel remaining positioned on the heel-supporting mechanism until it is attached to the shoe. It will be apparent that by this invention not only are the passages in a heel located accurately and without undue attention by the operator beneath the fasteners in a shoe to which the heel is to be attached, but a considerable saving in time in the hee1-attaching operation is effected, in consequence of the use of separate machines for pricking the heel and for pressing together the shoe and heel being avoided.

When the fasteners are being inserted in the shoe, the thickness of the work between the opposed pressure-applying devices is less than it is when the shoe and heel are being pressed together. Therefore, the invention also furnishes means whereby the pressure exerted on the shoe when the fasteners are being inserted is so controlled that undesirably heavy pressure, which might cause damage to the work, is avoided.

The invention further provides means which prevents the machine from being started under power if the work is not in proper position for operation thereon, said means also being so arranged that a portion of the mechanism by which a heel is supported cannot be moved relatively when said mechanism is positioned beneath the shoe-support or is being moved to such position.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating one of the several possible embodiments of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a broken left-hand side elevation, partly in section, of the machine, showing more particularly the heel-pricking mechanism;

Fig. 2, a similar view, showing more particularly the pressure-controlling mechanism;

' Fig. 3, a front elevation of that portion of the machine with which this invention is more directly concerned;

Fig. 4, a rear elevation, partly in section, of some of the pressure-controlling mechanism shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5, a left-hand side elevation of the locking arrangement for the pricking mechanism;

abutment '1.

Fig. 6, a rear view, partly in section, of the mechanism of Fig. 5;

Fig. 7, a left-hand side elevation of adjusting means of the pricking mechanism;

Fig. 8, a front elevation, partly in section, of the mechanism of Fig. 7;

Fig. 9, a broken plan view of shoe-holding mechanism;

Fig. 10, a front elevation of a part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 9,

Fig. 11, a side elevation of the complete machine, viewed from the left in Fig. 3; r

Fig. 12, a view similar to Fig. 3, but-with the carrier-frame in its left-hand position and add-itional portions of the fastener-supplying mechanism included;

Fig. 13, an enlarged vertical section through the pricking mechanism, at the completion of its operation; and

Fig. 14, a fragmentary vertical, longitudinal section through the delivery end ofthe fastenersupplying mechanism.

The illustrative machineexcept-as will hereinafter appear, is in its general construction similar to that described inLetters Patent ofthe United tener-inserting mechanism ofthe machine, the nails so driven into the heel-seat portion of a shoe that they project therefromgand aheel pressed on to the projecting portions of the nails to attach the heel to the shoe. The present machine, however, has a further mechanism A arranged to prick holes in the heel, to receive the projecting portions of the nails before the heelis pressed thereon, and means whereby the pressure to which the work is subjected "during the driving of the nails into a shoe and the attaching of a heel to the shoe is so controlled that unduly heavy pressure on the work is avoided.

The pricking mechanism A isarranged at the left-hand side of the machine, as seen in Figs. 3 and 12. It is so positioned that when a frame I carrying a left-hand work-supporting mechanism 3 and a right-hand work-supporting mechanism 5 is moved to its left-hand position, a heel on the mechanism 3is beneath pricking tools of the pricking mechanism and the mechanism 5 is directly below a last-engaging .or shoe supporting The pricking mechanism comprises a main bracket 8 (Figs. 1, 3 and 12) secured to the side of the machine-frarneill. A forward portion [3 of the bracket has slidingly mounted 'in it a vertical sleeve-portion.l5 extending'upwardly from a hollow pricker'ehead ll. This pricker-head is substantially rectangular, when viewed from above, and in the inner surfaces of its front and rear walls near the bottom thereof are formed rectangular grooves I9. Thelower portion of the left-handwallof the pricker-head is formed by a door 2| (Figs. 3,1 1, 12 and 13), hinged to the head by'averticalpivot .23 (Figs. 1 and 13) and held inclosed position by a readily removable screw 25. An awl-guiding block 2'! is supp d n h l w r end o the wic -head. It h s a the f t nd a t e ear fl es 9 ranged to slide in the grooves l9 and tobe held therein by the right-hand wall of *the prickerhead and an adjustable screw-3l (Figs. 3 and 12) in the door. Below the flanges 29 the block 21 has outwardly extending portions which engage the lower face of the pric'ker-head. 'The lower face 33 of the block2'lis convex and is arranged to engage the upper concave face of a heel and to clamp the heel during the pricking operation. The block has formed in it a plurality of awlguiding holes, which, if a mans shoe-heel is being operated upon, are usually vertical, but, if it is a womans shoe-heel, usually slope downwardly and inwardly at a small angle to the vertical, so that the holes are inclined similarly to the curved periphery of the heel.

In the work-supporting mechanism 3 a pressin plate, on which a heel rests on its tread-face, is made in two parts. An upper part 35, which supports the heel and carries work-holding and -positioning devices D, is slidably mounted on a lower part 31 (Fig. 3), so that the upper part may be moved forward from beneath the pricker-head and held in this position, while a heel is placed thereon in the devices D.

Enclosed within the pricker-head I7 is an awlcarrying block 39 having secured to its lower face a plate ll having a number of holes through each of which passes an awl= 3, C p g a relatively thin rod having apoint on its lower end and a head'on its upper end. The heads oithe awls are received" in recesses in the block 35 and are supported by the plate 4|, the holes in which are large enough to allow the awls to have some slight lateral swinging movement. The block 39 has formed in its upper portion a guideway t5 extending laterally of the machine, and which is arranged to receive a head 4? on'the lower end of a vertical awl-spindle 49 guided in the sleeve 1 5 or the pricker-head. When the door 25 on the pricker-hea'd is opened, the guide-block 2?, carrying block39 and awls 43, then in the head, may be removed bodily by merely sliding them from said head and from the head 4! on the spindle .9. They may then be replaced by a guide-block, carrying blockand a-wls corresponding to a different pricking design. The sleeve-portion ill of the pricker-head has a key 5i (Fig.1), arranged to slide in a 'keyway 53 in the portion" it of the main bracket IE to prevent the pricker-head from rotating. At the rear of the sleeve-portion are rack-teeth 55 engaged by a gear-segment 5? on the forward end of an arm 59 of a pricker-headlever 8|. This arm is secured on a horizontal spindle 63 extending laterally of the machine and rotatably mounted in the main bracket 9.

The lever '6! has a rearwardly extending arm 65 on which is an upwardly extending boss 67. Slidably mounted in a bore'in the boss 2 and extending lengthwise thereof is a pricker-headactuating rod 69. The rod has a head ii at its lower end and a reduced portion extending up--= wardly from the head through the boss. The bore in the boss has onepo-rtion in which the head TI is movable and a reduced upper portion in which the rod is movable, there being a. compression-spring '13 in the bore surrounding the rod. This spring engages the head ii and a shoulder formed by the reduced portion of the bore and urges therod' t9 downwardly. he rod above the boss is-threaded and has on it a nut and a locknut '15 which limit its downward movement. The lower end of the head has a shoulder l! which is arrangedto be engaged by a projection 19 on the forward end-portion of a rearwardly extending link 3!, pivoted to the upper end of a pricker head-actuatingtoggleeii-nk 83. The lower end portion of the toggle-link 'ispivotal'ly connected to a toggle-arm of a 'pricker-headactuating leverfil. The lever fil has a hub, from which the arm 85 extendsupwardly, it turning J about a horizontal spindle 89 extending laterally of the machine and secured in brackets 9I (Figs. 1 and 4) fixed to the bracket 9 of the pricker mechanism. The arm 85 of the lever 81 and link 83 form a toggle, which when straightened, as hereinafter described, causes, through the rod 69, spring 13, pricker-head-lever GI and gearing 51, 55, the awl-block 21 to be pressed against a heel on the plate 35 of the work-supporting mechanism 3. i

The rear portion of the link 8| has a substantially horizontal slot 93, through which passes a horizontal pin 95, secured in a bracket 91 (Figs. 1 and 6) on the bracket 9 to support and guide the rear end of the link. The toggle-link 83 has connected to it one end of a tension-spring 99, the other end of which is secured tothe bracket 9 and is arranged to pull the upper end of the toggle-link and link 8| forward to position the projection 19 on the latter link beneath the shoulder 11 on the head II of the pricker-headactuating rod 69. The pricker-head-actuating lever 81 has another upwardly extending arm IIJI in front of the toggle-arm 85. This is arranged to engage the front of the toggle-link I33-near the lower end thereof, and, as the toggle is broken, to move the upper end of the toggle-link 83 and the link 8I rearwardly to shift the projection 19 on the latter link from beneath the shoulder 11 on the head H of the pricker-head-actuating rod.

The pricker-head I1 is first moved down to cause the awl-guiding block 21 to engage a heel on the work-support 3 by treadle-operated means. This means comprises a rearwardly extending arm I93 fast on the spindle 63 to which the pricker-head-lever BI is secured. The end of the arm I03 has pivotally connected to it a two-part link, comprising a lower portion I05 and an upper portion I01 (Figs. 1 and 2) slidingly mounted in the lower portion and connected by a tension spring I39. The upper end of the portion I01 is pivotally connected to a lever III, bywhich the shoe-supporting abutment I is depressed, as in the previously mentioned patent, through a link I I2 joined to an unillustrated treadle II4. When the treadle H4 is depressed, the pricker-head I1 is moved downwardly through the abutment-lever III, the link I05, I01 and pricker-head-lever BI, until the awl-guiding block 21 engages a heel on the work-supporting mechanism 3. During this movement of the lever 6|, the boss 61 and the pricker-head-actuating rod 59 are moved upwardly, and this upward movement causes the shoulder 11 on the head II on the rod to lie at a higher level than the projection 19 on the link 8I, so that the projection may be moved beneath the shoulder in readiness to cause as hereinbefore described, the awl-g uiding block 21 to be pressed against the heel by power-operated means. The upper end of the awl-spindle 49 is pivotally connected by a pin II 3 to a link II5 pivoted to the forward end of an awl-actuating lever H1. The pivotal connection between the lever H1 and link II5 (Figs. '1 and 8) comprises a stud II9 rotatably mounted in the link II5 and having an eccentric portion I2I mounted in the respondingly varied.

bed, now attached to the shoe.

The lever II 1 is pivoted about midway on a horizontal stud I29 carried by a bracket I3I secured to the main bracket 9. The rear end of the lever has two arms each of which is pivotally connected to the upper end portion of a togglelink I33 (Fig. 4) of an awl-actuating toggle-lever. The lower end portion of each toggle-link I33 is pivotally connected to the upper end of an arm I35 extending from the hub of the pricker-headactuating lever 81. The lever 81 has an arm I31 to whichis pivotally connected the upper end of a nod I39, the lower end of which is pivoted to an arm I4I movable under the power of the machine when clamping pressure is applied to the work, as in the Gouldbourn patent. When, there- 'fore, the machine is being operated by power, the toggle, comprising the links I33 and arms 535, is straightened, to cause the awls 43 to prick the heel, after the guide-block 21 has been pressed firmly against the heel, as later described.

As the downward movement of the awls to prick the heel is nearly completed, the pricker-head l1, after it has been pressed by the power-operated mechanism against the heel, is locked against upward movement. The lock remains operative until the awls have been withdrawn from the heel, to prevent the heel from being lifted from the work-support 3 as the awls are moving upwardly after their pricking action. The mechanism for locking the pricker-head comprises an arm I43 (Figs. 1, 5 and 6) projecting downwardly from the boss 51 at the rear of the pricker-heacl-lever 6|. Arranged to engage the left-hand side face of the arm I43, viewing the machine, from the front, is an eccentric face I45 on a locking lever I41 pivoted on the bracket 91. The lever I 41 has an arm I49 extending toward the left and the eccentric face I45 is so arranged that upward movement of this arm I49 causes the eccentric face to wedge against the arm I43. The opposite face of the arm I43 bears against the bracket 9'? and the engagement of the eccentric face prevents downward movement of the arm and therefore upward movement of the pricker-head I1. The arm I49 of the locking lever I41 has extending from it a stud I5i on which is mounted a roll I53. The roll I53 is engaged by a cam-face I55 on a cam-lever I51 pivoted on a stud I59 secured in a plate I6I fixed to the bracket 9 by screws I63. These screws pass through slots in the plate, so it and the cam-lever may be adjusted upwardly or downwardly. The cam-lever has an arm I65. in which is secured a stud I61 passing through a. slot I69 in the lower portion of a lock-actuating link I1I. The upper end of the link is pivoted to the rear end of the pricker-actuating lever I I1 (Figs. 4 and 5). The slot I69 has extending into it two screws 313 and I15, so arranged that just before the awls complete their pricking movement the screw i'Z-i at the lower end of the slot engages the stud I61 in the lever I51 and causes the lock to become effective. When the awls have been withdrawn from the heel, the screw I15 in the upper end of the slot engages the stud I61 and operates the locking lever to release the lock. The screws 3'33, I15 may be adjusted to vary the time of applying and releasing the lock.

The pricking mechanism operates in the following manner. When the machine comes to its stopped position after having caused a heel to be attached to a shoe, the work-supporting mechanism 3 will be in its right-hand position (Fig. 3), to'which it was previously moved with a pricked Unjacking the ass-spas 7 heeled shoe, the operator. moves the? carrierframe I- to shift-the mechanism 3 to its left-hand position. beneath theawl's 43, the pricken-head l l and awls-b'eing raised. He draws forwardthe upper part 35' of the pressing; plate of 'the mecha' nism 3 and p'laces -on-itan unpriol'red heel, tread facedown, in. the work-holdingdevices; He then moves the part 3 5 of the pressing plate rearwardly to carry the heel beneath the pricker head. When, thereafter, the operator depresses: the treadle of the machine; theprioker-headlis-moved down b-y'its connection to the abutment lever H4, as" already described, to: cause the awl-gni'ding block Zl to engage" the upper face-of theheel' and to force the heel againstthepressing-plate. This movement of the prickeri-head-leverfii causes the boss 6'! on: the. rear of the lever to: be raised,.so that the shoulder IT on the-head]! of themed; 69 inzthe boss-is at a higher lever than the. proiecition l9 on. the linki 8i at-the: rear? ofi'thea nod. When the machine is operatedbypower, after'the treadle has been further depressed to start the machine, the: pricker head-actuating' lever 81' is turned. clockwise by its connection to the arm I41. The upwardly extending arm I'M: of the lever is moved awayfrom the toggle-link 83 and allowsthe tension-spring 99 to carry the togglelink and the link Bl forward to position the projection 19 on the link beneath the shoulder 11. As' the. pricker-head-actuating lever 81 continues its clockwise movement, the pricker-head-actuating'toggle-lever 83-, 85 and awl-actuatin'g toggle-lever I33, I arestraightened. The-arrangement is such: that the pricker-head-actuating lever causes the awl-guiding' block 21 in the pricker-head to be pressed firmly'a'gainstfthe' heel justbefore itspr-icking by the awls. dsicommences. As. the awl-actuating toggle-lever is approaching its straightened condition, the pricker h'ead aotuating toggle-lever passes slightly beyond this point. The awls, as they are moved from their fully raisedposition, travel aslightlygreater distance before they: engage the-heel? than they do when. they are: actually pricking the heel; and

the prick'er-head-actuating toggle-lever is so arranged that pressure is applied by-theprickerhead to the heel before the. awls enter the heel. The full pressuie of the priclier-head is efiective before theawls completeitheir prickingrmovement.

At this time, and. while the pricker head is: be-

rearwardly from:bzeneathztheshoulder: L1 so. that the: pricker-head may. return to its: raisedzposttion when the treadle of the: machine is released by the operator. As the pricker-head is raised, the boss' tl and rod 68 are lowered; andthe shoulider 1'! returns to a position lower than thezproljection l9.

The illustrative machine is provided wit-h mechanism" for preventing it'from. beingistartediunder power unlessv the upper. part 35 of; the: pressing plate oi? the supporting mechanism 3 is fully in operating position; and for preventing the part 35' from being pulled forward when: the mechani'sm' 3' is being-mOVed:lto 0ris in its right-h'and position; in which a:- pri'cke'd heelf thereon is at.-

7 5 the control-lever.

I 8 teiohed to a; shoe. mechanism; comprises .ed hori'Zontar-lockingrodror bar: I11 (Fig. 3:); extendin'g. laterally of? the machine; which. is. slidingly mountediinsthelpartt'l ofv the pressing: plate. Its leftehamiend; is arranged to enter a. recess Hi9 in the part 35 initszrear-ward position, to prevent said part from beingmovediforward. The locking rod: L1 1 hasiexten'ding' downwardly from its righthand end a pair of flanges l8l, between which is a rounded upper: end I83: of. an: arm: I85" of a threes-armed lever I51. This lever is pivoted. on aahori'zontal forwardly and: rear-weirdly extending stud?- l 8-9 secured in the mechanism 3, and: has a second: arm i921 extending. to the left and a third arm: 93 extending to the right.v The arm w l has pivoted toitsleft-hand end adepending latch- 135, which can sw-ing freely in a clockwise direction: from its depending position but cannot swing in" a counterclockwise direction, owing to its 'right-hand side facebeing engaged by a face on the arm: Hi l: The lower face of theslatoh L95 is-inclined upwardly toward the left. The ri'ghthand end of the arm i 93 has. secured to its un dersid'e a hardenedi blocks 2-97.. The rod; HI has in it-pinits; arranged to engage the ends of a slot 2! in the: lower' part 3' of the pressing plate. Thelengthof" the slot is such that-when the pin is in engagement with one end, the lefthand'enr'l oitherod- I'l 'F is in the recess- HH- in the part '35 of the pressing plate and prevents said' part' from being moved. forward; Whenthe pin is in engagement with the other end of the slot, the left-hand end of th'erod is out of the recess and the" part 3'5lmay' be moved forward. A's thelever 1'8! is=swung on its-pivot tomove the red: from one position to the other, a spring plunger 2 33-movable in the mechanism-.3 engages cheer" the other'of tworecesses. 2-85, ZQE in the rodtohold: it yieldably in position. Secured to a guide-rail 20 F'for the carrier i is a casing'ZflS, which is at. the rlght of the mechanism. 3 when thel'atter is in its 1 left-hand position; The casing 209 has-pivote'd-toa-lug on-its left-hand side, on a horizontal forwardly andrearwardly extending pin 24 1; a controlleven 2-43; having a: substan tially horizontal arm 2- |-5'=-extending' tothe'lef t" and a downwardly'extending'ar-m 2H. The arm: 2% of the control-lever'hasa rounded end arranged to-en'gage the undersi'de of theblock 1'91 on the arm [9'3 of the lever 81. The arm 2H has its lower: end portion bent to the right toenter an opening in the casing. The endof thebent portion is rounded and is held by atensionsprihg 219, connected to the control-lever and to'th'e casing; against the left-handfaceota vertical bar Z7|'-sli'dably=mounted inthe casing and connected by a -link ZZiFte the'tre'adleot the machine. This bar-22 i; with -the co-operatin'g bar '229:on the car;- rier-fra'me I, furnishes the safety-latch of the previouslymentionediPa'tent No.- 2;391,543, which prevents depression of the machine-treadle un;.-

less the carrier frarn'eis inone or the other of its' operating positions. In the left-hand face-of the bar 2 2-1 is a recess 2 25, having a bottomface inollned upwardlyand to: the left, which the rounded end portion or the arm 2* H of the contml-lever Z43 enters when the treadleand bar areintheir'f-ully raised position.

As themechanlsm 3 is moved from its right!- hand position beneath the shoe-abutment 'lto its lef-t-hand position beneath the pricker-head, the ineline'd edge of the latch I95 on the arml 9 'l of-' the lever I S-T engages and passes over a pin 2-21:- prejecting from the horizontal arm 2 15' of Since the latch: L95 cannot turn in a counterclockwise direction, the lever I81 is rotated clockwise and draws the rod I I1 out of the recess I E9 in the upper part 35 of the pressing plate. When the mechanism 3 is in its left-hand position, the block I91 on the arm I93 of the lever I8! is just above the rounded end of the arm '2I5 of the control-lever H3 and the end of the downwardly extending arm 2H of the control-lever is in the recess 225 in the bar 22I. The part 35 of the pressing plate may now be drawn forward to receive a heel, and at this time the recess I19 in the part 35 moves forwardly of the end of the rod I11, and the rod is prevented by a vertical face on the plate from moving toward the left. If, when the upper part of the pressing plate is in its forward position or has not been moved fully rearward, the operator attempts to depress the treadle. the inclined face at the bottom of the recess 225 in the bar 22I presses against the end of the arm 2|! of the control-lever 2I3, and causes the rounded end of the arm 2I5 of the control-lever to be urged against the block I91 on the arm I93 of the lever I81. Through said lever, this presses the end of the rod I'll against the face on the upper part 35 of the pressing plate. The treadle is thus prevented from being depressed and the machine from being started. If, however, the part 35 is in its fully rearward position, the recess I19- therein will register with the rod I'll, and when the treadle is depressed to start the machine, the inclined face at the bottom of the recess 225 will, through the control-lever 213 and lever I81, push the left-hand end of the rod into the recess in the upper part of the pressing plate. The upper part is thus locked against forward movement and the machine may be started. The spring-plunger 233 holds the levert I81 and rod IT! in this position while the supporting mechanism 3 is moved to its right-hand position. During such movement the latch I95 moves idly over the pin 22! of the control-lever 2|3, with the result that while the supporting mechanism 3 is moved to and is in its right-hand position the part 35 of the pressing plate is locked against forward movement. This mechanism therefore ensures that the part 35, with the applied heel, will be in the proper position beneath the awls before they can be operated to prick the heel, and that the part 35 and the pricked heel cannot be displaced after they have left the pricking posi tion.

The shoe-supporting abutment or jack 1 of the machine may be caused to press the heel-seat of a shoe against a top-plate or nailing die 23I on the mechanism 5 or against a heel held upon the plate 35 of the mechanism 3, first by means of a treadle and then by power means, as described in the previously mentioned application.

The machine has means for positioning a. shoe on the abutment I, which includes a device arranged to engage the crease formed between the upper and a sole member at the rear of the shoe and devices arranged to engage the crease at each side of the heel-portion of the shoe. The device which engages the crease at the rear of the shoe comprises a block 233 (Figs. 2 and 9) which is supported in a bracket 234 sliding upon the frame in the same manner as that in Letters Patent of the United States No. 2,259,568, Kestell, October 21, 1941. The devices at the sides of the heel* portion of the shoe comprise members 235, 235 (Figs, 9 and 10) shaped to enter the crease and engage the upper, these being supported so that they may each pivot about a vertical axis. The

pivots are furnished by bolts 23'! secured to blocks 239 which are adjustable along slots in the pivoted arms MI. The members 235 have extending upwardly from them lugs 243, 245 arranged to enage the blocks 239. Springs 24'! normally hold the lugs 243 against the blocks, with the rear portions of the members 235 in an inward position. Here they provide convenient means for guiding the crease of a shoe when it is being presented to the machine, it engaging the rear portions to displace them outwardly as the shoe is pushed to the rear. As the arms 24! are closed to clamp the shoe, the blocks 239 engage the lugs 245 and press the rear portions into the crease. The machine has means, similar to that de cribed in sa d Patent No. 2,391,543, for preventing the arms 24| from opening when the machine comes to rest after the heel has been pricked, the nails have been driven into the shoe and the treadle released. This is to ensure that the shoe will not be displaced while the heel is moved beneath it to be pressed on the inserted nails. The block 233, which engages the rear of the shoe, has slidably mounted in it a crease-engaging portion 249 which can yield rearwardly (Fig. 2), and the block has on it just above the yielding portion a face 25I, arranged to engage the rear of the upper just above the crease and to position the shoe lengthwise in the machine. When a shoe is presented to the machine, it may be positioned heightwise therein by engagement of the crease with the portion 249, and may then be pushed rearwardly until the upper engages the face 25| and is positioned lengthwise thereby. The provision of the yielding portion 249 prevents a shoe, in which the sole may not be firmly secured, from being pushed too far back in the machine owing to the crease-engaging block wedging between the sole and shoe. The present arrangement provides means whereby the shoe may be correctly located heightwise and a solid abutment whereby the shoe may be located lengthwise.

In order to enable the shoe-supporting abutment 1 to have sufiicient power-operated movement to press on a pricked heel, a shoe from which the heel-attaching nails project, a toggle-lever comprising toggle-links 253, 255 (Fig. 2) is arranged to give a downward movement to the abutment of about five-eighths of an inch, to force the nails into the heel and then to press the shoe and heel together at the mechanism When, however, the heel-attaching nails are being inserted into the heel-seat of a shoe, the shoe is first moved down by the abutment into engagement with the mechanism 5, which drives the nails, before the machine is operated by power. In this machine work-clamping pressure is applied to the abutment by mechanism similar to that of the Gouldbourn patent. If a pair of actuating pawls 251, 259, pivoted upon a pressurelever 269 which is oscillated through the spring 265 by the toggle-lever 253, 255, were allowed to engage the teeth 26I of a work-measuring ratchetsegment 263, carried by a plunger or shoe-support actuating lever 264 which reciprocates the abutment 1, almost as soon as the power-operation of the machine commenced, the full stroke of the toggle-lever would be effective to compress the spring 265. Therefore, a force so heavy would be applied to the last at the mechanism 5 that it would be likely to damage it and perhaps the shoe. To prevent this, the illustrative machine is provided with mechanism whereby the actuating pawls 251, 259 are held out of engagement with the ratchet-teeth 26l, when the machine is inill .511 until some of the straightening movement of the toggle-lever has taken place. They then allowed to engage the ratchet-teeth, so that the spring 235 during the remainder of the straightening of the toggle is compressed. W a heel is being attached to the shoe by the mechanism 3, the pawls are allowed to engage the ratchet-teeth almost as soon as the toggle-levercommences to straighten, so that during the straightening of the lever the shoe is pressed downwardly first to force the nails into the heel, during which the spring'265 may be slightly compressed, and then, when the heel-seat of the shoe is bei forced against the heel, the spring is compressed or further compressed and a relatively heavy pressure is applied to the work through the a spring.

In the present machine the actuating pawls' 251, 259 are controlled'by the slider 2M movable upon the pressure-lever 269. The slider now e; the attaching nails in a shoe by the mechextends above the pressure lever and has secured I spring 281 against the slider to limit movement of the arm 2"l 5 toward it. When, during operation of the machine; the arm is beneath the biock 211, the pressure-lever slider 26?, control-pawl ZM'andaCtuating' pawls 251, 2553 move upwardly together, and the actu--- ating pawls are held by the slider out of engagement with the ratchet-teeth zen on the ratchetsegment 263. has pivotally connected to it a downwardly extending rod 283', the lower end of which is pivoted to a rearwardly' extending arm 2&5 of a bell crank-lever 285 which is pivoted on a horizontal pin 28'! rotatably mounted in a bracket 289 securedto the right-hand side-of the machineframe. 'Ihebell-c-rank-lever has an upwardly extending arm 29! which has pivotallyconnected to it a forwardlyv extending rod 293 pivoted to an.

upwardly extending arm 295 (Figs. 2 and 3) of a cam-lever 295. This lever is-pivotallymounted on the bracket 289 and has a forwardly extending armliilcarrying a cam-roll 299'. The bracket 289 has in it a screw 3!!! (Fig. 2) arranged to limit forwardjmovement of the arm of the bell-crank-lever 2-86.

The carrier-frame I, on which the mechanisms 3 and 5 are mounted, has a cam 393 (Fig. 3) arranged to engage the underside-of the. cam-roll The arm 21'! of the control-pawlis of the control-paw:

299 and raise it to withdraw the arm; 215 of the control-:pawl 274 from beneath the block ill on theslider 25?, as the carrier-frame moves to the rig-htto carry a heel on the mechanism 5 beneath a shoeon the abutment T for attachment. The actuating pawls 251-, 25-9, when the carrier-frame is in this position, are therefore allowed to move intoengagement with the ratchet-teeth 255 to apply pressure to the work through the abutment almost as soon as the machine commences to operate by power. When, however, the carrierframe is in its. left-hand position, during which a heel is pricked and nails are driven into a shoe to which the heel is'tobe attached, the cam 3% on the carrier-frame has passed from below the cam-roll 299 on the cam-lever 296, and the tenslop-spring 2&1 has moved the arm 215. of the 74'; When preliminary pressure has been applied machine frame.

control-pawl beneath the block 2?! on the slider 26?. At this time, the'screw 30! in the bracket 259 is usually a little distance from the arm 281* of the bell-crank lever 285. When the machine operated by power, the rear end of the pressure lever 239, the slider 25?, the control-pawl 2H and the actuating pawls 253, 259 all rise together,.

with the actuating pawls held out of contact with the ratchet-teeth 26H by the engagementof tripping devices see on the slider with pins 395 in the pawls'. During this movement or" the pressurelever 26$, the beil-crank-lever 236 is, by its connection to the'control-pawl 2'5 5, rotated forwardly" until its arm 22! comes into contact withthe screw 53L During continued movement of the pressure-lever, therefore, the rear end' of the is moved from beneath the block ZH to free the slider 26? and the actuating pawls 251i, 255i are drawn. forward by their springs (not shown) intoengagement'with the ratchet-teethitl. After the actuating pawis have engaged the ratchetteeth, reduced pressure is. applied through thev spring 265 to the work through the shoe-support ing abutment.

The time in the upward movement of the 259 engage the ratchet-teeth'and transmit pressure to the work, may be varied by adjusting -1escrewin the bracket If, on the one hand, this screw is adjusted so far forward that the arm 29! of the lever 2'85 cloes'not, as the pressure-Hover rises, come into engagement with the screw, then the arm' 2'55 of the controlling pawl will not be withdrawn from beneath the block 2H on the slider 25? and the actuating pawls will not engage the ratchet-teeth and no pressure. except that applied by the operator through the treadle, will be placed upon the work. Ii, on the other hand, the screw 39! is adjusted so far rearwardly' that the arm 2'55 of the control'mawl' withdrawn thereby from beneath the block so the actuating pawls engage the ratchet-teeth just after the pressure-lever commences to be moved upwardly, relatively heavy pressure will be exertedon the workthrough the spring 255, during almost all the'straightening of the toggle-links 253, 255;

it will therefore be realized that the pressure applied to the shoe while the nails are being driven therein may readily be adjusted. The arrangement is preferably such, however, that the pressure is usually less when the nails are being inserted thanwhen the heel shoe arebeing pressed together.

The treaclle i for actuating the power operated mechanism of the machine is pivoted upon a clutch lever 525} (Fig. 11) fulcrumed upon the Depression of the treadle lhi causes, through a rod 322, clockwise movement of a multi-armed lever 324 (Figs. 2 and. 11) which is ful'orumed on the machine frame and is con nected by the rod H2-to the rear endcf the lever Ii! which is secured to a shaft 326 rotatably mounted'in the machine frame. upper and lower ends-oi which are secured to the lever lit and to the machine. frame respectively, constantly urges the treadle ti l to its raised idle position. The lever I i i is operatively actuating lever 25 through which the shoe positioning and supporting means are actuated.

ssure-lever 259 at which the actuating pawls A spring 328;v

to the work inthe machine upon initial depresr A nail driver see (Fig. 12), whichis mounted for vertical. reciprocation in the nailing die 23!, is actuated by a plunger 332 operativelyconnected at its lower end to the upper end of toggle 33 1 (Fig. 11) eperatively connected to an arm 33.6 which upon actuation of the clutch 329 is operated in timed relation with the other power,

driven mechanism of the machine. The fastener inserting mechanism of th machine is identical with that disclosed in said Patent No. 1,195,134 and need not be further described herein.

In describing the operation of the illustrative machine, it will be assumed that a heel has been attached to a shoe and the fastener-inserting mechanism 5, is in its right-hand position beneath an apparatus 306, from which such fas-- teners as nails have been delivered to said mechanism. The operator removes the heeled shoe from the machine and moves the carrier-drama I to' the left-hand position, in which the hee1- supporting mechanism 3 is beneath the prick-en head I! and the mechanism 5 is beneath the shoesupporting abutment 1 (Fig. 12). He then posi tlons a lasted shoe on the abutment and a heel on the mechanism 3 and depresses the treadle. This 1 causes the block 21 of the pricker-headto be pressed against the heel (Fig. 13) and the abut" ment to press the shoe against'the top-plate 239! of the mechanism 5. The pricker-head is ar ranged to engage the heel before the abutment pressestheshoe against the top-plate, ,and dur ing, continued movement of the treadle after the pricker-head has engaged the heel, the partsv o.f

the two-part link I05, yield relatively lengthwise or the link. The operator continues the depression of the treadle to cause the, machine to be operated by power. During the. power-operation, the pricker-head I1 is pressedfirrnly against the heel and is locked against upward movement by the eccentric I (Figs. 1, 5 and 6) operated through connection to the awl-actuatin lever H1. The abutment l presses the shoe firmly against the top-plate 231. The heel is pricked and the nails driven into the heel-seat of the shoe, the pricking of the hee1 being performed just before the nails are driven. After the machine comes to rest,;

with the pricker-head l1, abutment 1 and shoe raised, the operator, without displacing thepricked heel on its support or the shoe onthe shoesupporting abutment, or changing the position of I 14 and shoe downwardly to cause the ends of the nails to enter the pricked holes in the heel. The ends of the nails are pressed by the treadle-action into the holes about one-eighth of an inch be fore the spring-pressed strut mechanism or the clutch of the machine is straightened and the clutch engaged. While the abutment is being moved downward by the operator, the prickerhead I! is also moving idly. When the machine is thereafter operated by power, the awls are actuated idly, but although they project beyond the bottom of the block 2|, injury to the operator is unlikely. This is because the work-supporting mechanism 3 has been moved from beneath the pricker-head l1, so the operators hands cannot be caught beneath the head or the awls. In the power-movement of the abutment 1 the nails are forced into the heel, and the toggle 253, 255 causes the spring 265 to be compressed or further compressed. Relatively heavy pressure is applied to the heel and shoe, as compared with that placed upon the shoe during the insertion of nails in the heel-seat. Thereafter, the pressing plate 35, 31 is moved upwardly to apply further pressure to the shoe and heel, which pressure may be varied by introducing plates of difierent thickness between the pressing plate and a block 301 by which it is carried (Fig. 3). The machine comes to rest with the heel attached to the shoe and the abutment 1 and the mechanisms 3 and 5 in the posifore causing the machine to be operated by power,

may be varied by adjustment of the force of the spring of the clutch mechanism, so that greater or less effort is required in trippin the clutch and therefore more or less pressure is applied to the shoe before the clutch is tripped.

The pricking machine disclosed herein is the subject-matter of a divisional application Serial No. 775,286, filed September 20, 1947.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of. the United States is:

1. In a heel-attaching machine, pricking mechanism, a; support for a heel, a support for a shoe, mechanism for driving fasteners into the heelseat of a shoe mounted upon the shoe-support andfor leaving portions of said fasteners extending beyond said heel-seat, means for effecting relative movement of the pricking mechanism and the heel-support to form passages in a heel upon the heel-support, means for moving the heel-support in a predetermined path from a position in which it supports the heel during the passage forming operation to a position adjacent to the shoe-support, and means for effecting relative movement of the shoe-support and the heelsupport'in a path disposed at an angle to the first-named path to attach the heel to the shoe with the projecting nails registering in the passages of the heel.

..2. In a heel-attaching machine, awls, a support for a heel, a support for a shoe, means for driving fasteners into the heel-seat of the shoe and forleaving portions of said fasteners extending from said heel-seat, means for moving said port thus positioned to force the nails proieeting from the heel-seat of the shoe into the passage of the heel and the heel-seat of the shoe with ate;

taching pressure against the heel.

3. In a heel-attaching machine, prickingmechanism, shoe positioning and supporting means, heel positioning and supporting means, a nailing die, a movable carrier upon which the nailing die and the heel positioning and 'supporting means are mounted, meansior moving the carrier to one position, in which theheel positioning and supporting means is arranged opposite the pricking mechanism and in which the nailing die is arranged adjacent to the shoe positioning and supporting means, and to a second post tion in which the heel positioning and supporting means is arranged adjacent to the shoe positioning and supporting means, .anai-hdriver mot able in the nailing die, means for simultaneously operating the pricking mechanism. the shoe positioning and supporting means and 13116111$il=d1ifl1f when the carrier is .in said one position to form passages in a heel on the heel positioning and supporting means and to drive into tne'iheel-seat of the shoe uponthe shoe positioning and 'sup porting means nails which project beyond the heel-seat of theshoe, and :means rcr movingatheshoe positioning and supporting 'means'rel'ativel-y to the heel positioning and supporting means when the carrier is in said second position to attach the heel .on said heel positioning and SllD'.

porting means to theshoe withithe portions of thebeing mounted upon the carrier, and means for moving the carrier to andtfromyan-toperative position in which the heel support and the :fas-

tener-inserting mechanism are arranged oppo site the pricking mechanism and the heel support respectively. 5. In a heel-attaching machine, a 551106-5111)- port, heel-pricking mechanism, a carrier movable between two operating positions, a heel-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, said heelsupport and said fastener-inserting mechanism being mounted upon the carrier for presentation to the pricking mechanism and shoe-support respectively simultaneously when the carrier is at one of said positions, movement of the carrier to the other operating position shifting the heelsupport into co-operation with the shoe-support, and means for moving the carrier between said positions.

6. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, heel-pricking mechanism, fastener-delivering mechanism, a carrier movable between two operating positions, a heel-support, fastener-inserting mechanism mounted upon the carrier for presentation to the pricking mechanism and shoe-support respectively simultaneously when the carrier is at one of said positions, movement of the carrier to the other position shifting the heel-support into oo-operation with the shoesupport and the fastener-inserting mechanism into co-operation with the fastener-delivering mechanism, and means for moving the carrier between said positions. 1

'7. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-sup port, heel-pricking mechanism, a carrier movable between two operating positions, a heel-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, said Shoelsupport and fastener-inserting mechanism being mounted upon the carrier for presentation to the pricking mechanism and shoe-support respectively simultaneously when the carrier is at one of said positions, movement of the carrier to the other operating position shifting the heel-support into co-operation with the shoe-support, and means for producing relative movement between the heel-support and shoe-support to apply pressure to the work.

8'. In a heel-attaching machine, a, heel-support and fastener-inserting mechanism movable between two positions, a shoe-support with which the heel-support co-operates in one position, pricking mechanism with which said heel-support co-operates in the other position, the fastener-inserting mechanism at this time co-operating with the shoe-support, and means actuated by the operator to apply pressure between the pricking mechanism and the supported heel and between the supported shoe and the fastenerinserting mechanism.

9. In a'heel-attaching machine, a heel-support and fastener-inserting mechanism movable between two positions, a shoe-support with which the heel-support co-operates in one position, pricking mechanism with which said heel-support co-operates inthe other position, the fastenerinserting mechanism at this time cooperating with the shoe-support, and a member movable by the operator to apply pressure between the pricking mechanism and the supported heel and between the supported shoe and the fastener-inserting mechanism, further movement of the member by the operator causing the application of pressure under the power of the machine between the pricking mechanism and the supported heel together with the pricking of :the heel and between the shoe and fastenerinserting mach anism together with the insertion .of the fasten-- ers in the heel-seat of the shoe.

10. In a heel-attaching machine, a heel-supanism including a movablemember for clamping" a heel upon its support, and means for com-' 'municating to the clamping member the movement of the shoe-support-moving member.

11-. In a heel-attaching machine, a heel-support movable between two operating positions, a shoe-support movable at one operating position toward and from the heel-support, a, member through which the shoe-support is moved, pricking mechanism at the second position, said mech.

anism including a movable member for clamping the heel upon its support, and means including a two-part link and spring for yieldably communicating to the clamping member the movement of the shoe-support-moving member.

12. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, pricking mechanism, a heel-support movable into co-operation with either the 'shoe-sup-' port or pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heel-holder movable upon it between heel-receiving and operating positions, and

means for locking the heel-holder in operating" position upon the heel-supportand for maintain-' ing it locked while said support is removed from" the pricking mechanism.

13. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, pricking mechanism, a. heel-support movable into co-operation with either the shoe-sup-'- port or pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heel-holder movable upon it between heel-receiving and operating positions, a mem' ber movable by the operator in starting power operation of the machine, and means for look ing the starting member against movement when the heel-holder is out of operating position.

14. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, pricking mechanism, a heel-support movable into two operating positions in which it is in copmration with the shoe-support or the pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heel-holder movable upon it between heel-receiving and operating positions, means for locking the heel-holder in operating position upon the heel-support and for maintaining it lock-ed while said support is removed from the pricking mechanism, a member movable by the operator in star-ting power-operation of the machine, and means for locking the starting member against movement when the heel-support is in its operative position in cooperation with the prick ing mechanism and the heel-holder is out of its operating position upon the heel-support.

15. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-sup- 1 port, pricking mechanism, a heel-support movab-ie into co-operation with either the shoe-support or pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heel-holder movable upon it between 'heehreceiving and operating positions, a lock for the heel-holder, and means for releasing the look as the heel-holder moves into co-operation with the pricking mechanism.

16. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, pricking mechanism, a heel-support mov :able into two'operating positions in which it is in co operation with the shoes-support or the :pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heelholder movable upon it between heel-receiving and operating positions, a member movable into and out of locking relation "to the heel-holder,

a member movable by the operator in starting the power-operation of the machine, and means connected to the locking member for locking the starting member against movement when the, heel-support is in its operative position in cooperation with the pricking mechanism and -the locking member is out of looking relation to the heel-holder.

1 7. In a heel-attaching machine, a :shoe-support, pricking mechanism, a heel-support movable into co-operation with either the shoe-support or pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heel-holder movable upon it between heel-receiving and operating positions, a member movable by the operator in starting power-operation of the machine, a locking bar for the heelholder, a locking bar for the starting member, a lever engaging the holder-locking bar, and a lever engaging the locking bar for the starting member, the levers having portions engaging each other during the movement of the heel-support to cause movement of the locking bar for the heel-holder.

18. In a heel attaching machine, a shoe-support, pricking mechanism, a heel-support movable into two operating positions in which it is in co-operation with the shoe-support or the pricking mechanism, said heel-support having a heel-holder movable upon it between heel-receiving and operating positions, a member movable by the operator in starting power-operation of the machine, a locking bar for the heel-holder, a locking bar for the starting member, a lever engaging the holder-locking bar, and a lever engaging the locking bar for the starting member,

the levers having portions engaging each other while the heel-support is in its operative position in co-operation with the pricking mechanism and the heel-holder is out of its operative position upon the heel-support to prevent movement of the locking bar for the starting member.

19. in a heel-attaching machine, a support for a shoe, mechanism for inserting fasteners into the heel-seatof a shoe on the support, mechanism for supporting a heel, mechanism for alternately moving the fastener inserting mechanism and the heel supporting mechanism into operative position adjacent to the shoe support, means for operating the shoe support to force against said fastener inserting mechanism the heel-seat of the shoe positioned between the shoe support and the fastener inserting mechanism preparatory to inserting fasteners into the heel-seat oi the shoe and also for operating the shoe support to force together the shoe and the heel between the shoe support and the heel support for attaching the heel to the shoe, and means for producing a difierent pressure upon the shoe and the heel during the heel attaching operation than is produced on the shoe during the fastener inserting operation. a

20. In a heel-attaching machine, a support for ashoe, mechanism for inserting fasteners into the heel-seat of a shoe on the support, mechanism tor supporting a heel, means for moving in predetermined paths the fastener inserting mechanism and the heel supporting mechanism alternately into operative position adjacent to the shoe support, means for operating the shoe support to force against said fastener inserting mechanismthe heel-seat of the shoe positioned between the shoe support and the fastener inserting mechanism preparatory to inserting fasteners into the heel-seat of the shoe and also tor operating the shoe support to .iorce together the shoe ,and the heel between the shoe support and the heel support for attaching the heel to theshoe, means for producing adifhzrent pressure upon the shoe and the heel during the heel attaching operation than is produced on the shoe during the fastener imerting operation, and

means movable in response to movement of said mechanism in said paths for controlling changes of pressure on the work during the fastener inserting and heel attaching operations.

21. ln-a heel-attaching machine, .a support or a shoe, mechanism for inserting fasteners into the heel-seat of a shoe on the support, mechanism for supporting a heel, means for alternately moving the fastener inserting mechanism and the heel supporting mechanism into operative position adjacent to the shoe support, means for operating the shoe support to force against said fastener inserting mechanism the heel-seat of the shoe positioned between the shoe support and the fastener inserting mechanism preparatory to inserting fasteners into the heel-seat of the shoe and also for operating the shoe support to force together the shoe and the heel between the shoe support and the heel support for attaching the heel to the shoe, and means for varying the amount of pressure applied to the shoe and the heel during the heel attaching operation.

22. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, heel-supporting mechanism, said mechanisms being movable to present either to the shoe-support, a pressure member movable to urge the shoe-support successively toward the fastener-inserting mechanism and toward the heel-supporting mecha- 19 nism, members connecting the pressure member to the shoe-support, certain of said members being movable into and out of engagement with each other, and means for producing such engaging movement for the two mechanisms after different extents of movement of the pressure member.

23. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-sup,- port, fastener-inserting mechanism, heel-supporting mechanism, a carrier for the mechanisms movable to present either to the shoe-support, a pressure-lever and a shoe-support-actuating lever movable to force the shoe-support toward the two mechanisms, means for connecting the levers to move together, means mounted upon one of the levers for preventing the engagement of the connecting means, and means mounted upon the carrier for rendering the engagement-preventing means inefiective when the heel-supporting mechanism co-operates with the shoe-support.

24. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, heel-supporting mechanism, a carrier for the mechanisms movable to present either to the shoe-support, a pressure-lever and a shoe-support-actuating lever movable to force the shoe-support toward the two mechanisms, means for connecting the levers to move together, a member movable upon the pressure-lever for disengaging the connecting means, a control-pawl pivoted upon the pressure-lever and contacting with the member to hold it in its disengaging relation, and a member mounted upon the carrier to shift the controlling pawl and free the disengaging member to permit the connecting means to act.

25. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, heel-supporting mechanism, a carrier for the mechanisms movable to present either to the shoe-support, a pressure-lever and a shoe-support-actuating lever movable to force the shoe-support toward the two mechanisms, means for connecting the levers to move together, a member movable upon the pressure-lever for disengaging the connecting means, a control-pawl pivoted upon'the pressure-lever and contacting with the member to hold it in its disengaging relation,-and means acting in the movement of the pressure-lever to shift the contro1-paw1 and free the disengaging member to permit the connecting means to act.

26. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, heel-sup- 20 porting mechanism, a carrier for the mechanisms movable to present either to the shoe-support, a pressure-lever and a shoe-support-actuating lever movable to force the shoe-support toward the two mechanisms, means for connecting the levers to move together, a member movable upon the pressure-lever for disengaging the connecting means, a control-pawl pivoted upon the pressure-lever and contacting with the member to hold it in its disengaging relation, means acting in the movement of the pressure-lever to shift the controlpawl and free the disengaging member to permit the connecting means to act, and means arranged to vary the time in the movement of the pressurelever that the disengaging member is freed.

27. In a heel-attaching machine, a shoe-support, fastener-inserting mechanism, heel-supporting mechanism, a carrier for the mechanisms movable to present either to the shoe-support, a pressure-lever and a shoe-support-actuating lever movable to force the shoe-support toward the two mechanisms, the pressure-lever having an actu ating pawl and the shoe-supporting lever having ratchet-teeth for engagement by the pawl to cause the'levers to move together, a slider on the pressure-lever by which the actuating pawl may be disengaged from the ratchet-teeth, a control-pawl pivoted upon the pressure-lever for engagement with the slider to hold it in disengaging relation, a cam mounted upon the carrier and acting upon the control-pawl to free the slider promptly in the work-pressing movement of the levers when the heel-supporting mechanism co-operates with the shoe-support, and means acting upon the control-pawl to delay the freeing of the slider when the fastener-inserting mechanism co-operates with the shoe-support.

THOMAS BAGGOTT CLARKE. ARTHUR ALAN RIVINGTON.

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